Magnolia Pictures has released the trailer for Dance First, an upcoming biographical film about celebrated playwright Samuel Beckett. The feature, set to arrive on August 9, is named after Beckett’s ...

"Even in that horrible place, they couldn't turn off the stars..." Magnolia has revealed an official trailer for the film titled Dance First, an intriguing biopic about the life of literary genius ...

It would be hard to imagine a genre more antithetical to the modernist sensibility of Samuel Beckett than the biopic. The Irish writer who relocated to Paris, found inspiration in the French language ...

Gabriel Byrne plays the Nobel Prize-winning playwright in the "Theory of Everything" director's latest. James Marsh is continuing his biopic filmography 10 years after “The Theory of Everything” ...

In this exclusive clip from "Dance First," a young Samuel Beckett meets James Joyce in Paris for the first time. In "Dance First," Irish actors Gabriel Byrne and Fionn O'Shea masterfully play Beckett, ...

When the Irish actor Gabriel Byrne was first approached to play the role of Samuel Beckett, one of Ireland’s greatest literary heroes, he hesitated. “I wrestled with the idea,” Byrne says on a recent ...

Samuel Beckett titled his one film Film, but the work itself, while arresting, is never as bold as that title. Beckett’s 1965 short, starring Buster Keaton, is more A Film than The Film, a study of a ...